Car-seat



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(No Model.)

CAR SEAT.

No. 562,606. Patmeame 23, 1896.

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ATENT OFFICE.

FRED II. HENRY, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAR-S EAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,606, dated June 23,1896. Application filed April 13, 1894:. Serial No- 507,351. (Nomodel.)-

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED I-I. HENRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Wakefield, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Seats,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to seats, more especially, but not necessarilyexclusively, carseats, and particularly to double car-seats or seatsadapted to accommodate two persons, this seat being adapted to revolveon a single central support, so that reversing is unnecessary, and itsback and seat portion being adapted to be folded, so that the seat canbe made of ample size and still revolve in a limited space withoutcoming into contact with the seats in front and to rear of it, besidesaffording ample opportunity for cleaning under and around it.

The invention consists in the novel con-.

struction and arrangement of parts below described, and illustrated inthe accompanying drawing, which shows a central cross vertical sectionof a car-seat embodying my invention, the seat being represented asfolded up, and the portions of the seat-cushion and seat-back beingindicated by broken lines.

A represents the pedestal, located centrally beneath the seat andadapted to receive a pivot A, extending down from the rail or bar 13,which supports the seat-frame. This pedestal allows the seat to berotated freely upon the removal of the locking-pin l3, and is notclaimed to be new. The rail or bar B supports, by means of the castingsb, the ends 0, provided with the posts 0, which support the arms 0.

D represents one of the two metallic supports or end plates whichsupport the seat-- back, (represented by broken lines a. Theseback-supports swing on the arms by means of pivots d, which extend intoopenings in the plates cl on the arms, and the seat-back a isremovablysecured to them, preferably, by

means of pockets, (indicated by broken hues,

overlapping the upper ends D of the backsupports, and pins 6, extendingfrom the seatback into the slots D.

Each of the back-supports is provided with an integral extension F, inwhich is cut a curved slot F. WVithinthis slot a pin f plays, said pinextending from the rocking seat-support H of substantially the shapeshown, one

being placed at each end of the seat I and sup porting it. The pins fextend through the slots E into the curved slots g, formed in thecastings b. The rocking seat-supports 11 turn on pivots I-I, extendingfrom the castings b, and hence the seat I rests on and is sustained bysaid pivots H and the said pins f, which extend into the slots g.

In the drawing the seat has been swung up into nearly a verticalposition, this being the result of the rocking supports H swinging onthe pivots H, the seat-pins f being at the lower ends of the slots F,thus causing the lower extensions F of the back-supports D to swingrearward, with the eifect of bringing the seat-back into thesubstantially vertical position shown. Swinging the seat I and therocking supports H down into position for use causes the pivots f tomove to the opposite ends of the slots 9 and F, theeffect of thismovement in the latter slots being to draw the extensions F forward andimpart a suitable rearward angle to the seat-back.

Ahorizontal foot-rest rail J is supported by hangers K, which arepivotally sustained at J by the rail B. These hangers K are providedwith upward, integral, curved extensions K. When the seat is tipped upinto the position shown, its rear edge, as it swings down, engages theupper ends of the extensions K and swings them down, swinging theportions J K of the foot-rest up at the same time into the positionindicated.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described improved seat, comprising a base, the rail or barB, the rocking seat-supports H turning on pivots 11 extending from thecastings b, the pins f extending from said seat-supports, theseat-back-sup porting plates D provided with the extensions F furnishedwith curved slots E, the arms 0 supported by the ends 0 and providedwith the plates d by means of which theback-supports are pivoted to saidarms, and the castings 17 secured to said rail or bar B near itsopposite ends provided with the curved slots g all arranged andconstructed to operate substantially as above described.

FRED I-I. HENRY.

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